Bed-pan.



A. CAPPELLARI.

BED-PAN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-3i, 1914.

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ALFONSO CAP PELLARI, F BOLOGNA, ITALY.

BED-PAN.

antihygienic, answer only in a small degreeto the scope for which they were created. In fact if they are left under the sick for the length of time necessary to their absolute immobility, they produce/bruises and sores on their bodies.

My bed-pan obviates all these lamentable inconveniences; it can be left under patients permanently, even when lying on their sides with perfect ease.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a preferred form of the bed-pan, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my bedan. p Fig. 2 is a longitudinal-sectional view of one of my bed-pans with a portion of the user representing the employment of said bed-pan.

The hollow, or inside, of the bed-pan l is finished with 'a rim 2 that is nearly at but which near the middle cross line descends with two'lateral .and symmetrical curves constituting at the oining point a raising 6 to spread forward which has the property of keeping the anal region firm.

The front half of the pan presents two side projections.

The two constituent surfaces 4: are hollowed and incurved toward the front so as to adapt themselves the better to the buttocks and thighs of the patient. Said surfaces commence with an appropriate curve from the rim of the vessel.

The two flanges 3 and consequently the surfaces 4: are lengthened'toward the front so as to constitute, by an appropriate curve,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 31, 1914. Serial No. 859,486.

a groove 5 with the design of isolating the sacrum and the coccygean protuberance.

In explanation of the above, 'Fig. 2 shows that the sacrum 7 is completely free outside of the bed-pan and rests entirely on the flat, the coccyx 8 is isolated in the groove 5 between the projections of the two flanges 3 of the bed-pan. Thus as is seen the weight of the lower parts leans entirely .on the sacrum consequently therefore the ischiadic tuberosity 9 can not make any pressure on the surfaces 4 which hold in their opposite cavity the fleshy parts, said fleshy parts protecting the ischiadic tuberosities. 10 leans over the raising 6 of the rim 2 of the bed-pan; the raising 6 pressing under the anal region hinders any matter even liquid from running vdown the flesh and on the bed. 11 is the rectum.

As no bony parts rest on the bed-pan it can be applied without even raising the patient, it is enough to lower the left arm between the legs of the patient slightly curved and press up the fleshy parts pushing at the same time with the other hand the bedpan under, slipping it a little forward.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A bed-pan having one end wall lower than the side walls, and inclined upward and inward to overhang the inclosed chamber, and having a central raised portion on its upper edge, the upper edges of the side Walls inclining downward toward said end wall and having broad inturned flanges merging into said end wall, said flanges and end wall having concave upper surfaces to support the thighs and lower portion of the body, while the said raised portion presses under the anal region, and the groove between the said flanges keeps the sacrum and coccyx free.

ALFONSO CAPPELLARI.

Witnesses:

WALTER SumoKI, LYLE ROBE.

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